With NShred you can eliminate confidential information and data from PC
drives. Name, size, contents of erased file or folder can never be
recovered, by any software or hardware means. NShred is a tool that
helps you to erase and destroy a folder or file.

When you delete a file or a folder in Windows it is not actually
erased. Simply, the hard disk descriptor table is updated and the file
entry is removed. So, the actual bytes of the file remain on the disk.

Even when the file area is overwritten, it is still possibile to
recover data, by applying certain laboratory procedures since it's rare
that a portion of the hard disk is rewritten more than 5/10 times. It
has been calculated that information is completely unrecoverable only
after more than 30 rewrites.

NShred detects the file area on the hard disk or other drive. This
area includes metadata on file, such as name and date. The area
is then rewritten 'n' times depending on the procedure. For instance,
with DOD algorithm, the file area is rewritten first with "0" bit, then
with "1" bit, then with a random byte.

After rewriting, the file area is reduced to zero, the file renamed
with random characters and finally deleted. This procedure guarantees
that not even a single byte from the former file can ever be retrieved.

While the majority of shredding tools are "brute force" and "operating
system agnostic" erasing tools, NShred behaves accordingly to the
underlying Operating System (OS), denying the user the possibility to
turn it unstable. For instance, if the OS denies a delete operation,
NShred will NOT erase the file.

The user will be able to erase it later when it is no more locked by
the OS.
Plus, NShred is a .NET Framework Smart Client application, which ensure
the user with a superior robustness and full compatibility and
integration with the latest Microsoft Operating Systems and tools.